The Sixteen Pleasures

Released: December 3, 2013
Length: 12 hrs 2 mins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

In the aftermath of the 1966 Florence flood, American volunteer Margot Harrington arrives in Italy to help save priceless art, discovering a concealed Renaissance volume of erotic poems and drawings. Her encounter with this forbidden treasure sparks an entangling journey of passion, loss, and renewal. Set against the historic flood’s aftermath, this audiobook explores themes of desire, spirituality, and personal transformation.

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